Enver Pasha
a Turkish soldier and politician. He was the chief and most influential leader in the Committee of Union and Progress, and with its advent into power through the revolution which overthrew Abdul Hamid, he began to take a prominent part in the political life of the Turkish nation. Immediately after the success of the Young Turk party he was sent to Berlin as the military attaché of the Turkish Embassy, and it is believed that it was through him personally that the understanding between Turkey and Germany was developed which led the Turks to throw their lot in with the Central Empires during the World War shortly after hostilities began. Enver Pasha was the most able assistant of General Liman von Sanders in the reorganization of the Turkish Army. After the collapse of the Turkish Government, in 1918, he fled to Germany. In January, 1920, he was reported to be back in Asiatic Turkey, where he raised the flag of revolt against the Government established by the Allies in Constantinople. Believing that he had the moral support of the whole Mohammedan world, especially in India, he demanded a revision of that clause of the Paris Treaty which proposed the partition of Turkey, his followers being known as the Nationalists. See TURKEY.
EOCENE (ē'ō-sen), in geology, a term applied to the lower division of the ÉPÉE Tertiary strata. The Eocene beds are arranged in two groups, termed the Lower and Upper Eocene; the strata formerly called Upper Eocene being now known as Oligocene. They consist of marls, limestones, clays, and sandstones, and are found in the Isle of Wight and in the S. E. of England, and N. W. of France, in central Europe, western Asia, northern Africa, and the Atlantic coast of North America.
ENVER PASHA EOLUS (ē'ō-lus), in Roman mythology, god of the winds.